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Vermilion Booster Shots: Attractive bottom-fishing stocks

For investors looking for bottom-fishing candidates; stocks that are breaking downtrends, exhibiting ascending reaction lows, and showing stabilizing relative strength.
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Aerie Pharmaceuticals Inc.

Aerie Pharmaceuticals is an ophthalmic pharmaceutical company focused on the discovery, development and commercialization of therapies for the treatment of open-angle glaucoma and other diseases of the eye. The company has an approved product, Rhopressa? and advanced-stage product candidate, Roclatan?, which both are designed to reduce elevated intraocular pressure in patients with open-angle glaucoma or ocular hypertension. The company is also developing two preclinical sustained-release implants focused on retinal diseases, which include AR-13503 for the treatment of wet age-related macular degeneration and related diseases of the retina; and AR-1105, a preclinical dexamethasone steroid implant.

Alexander's Inc.

Alexander's is a real estate investment trust engaged in leasing, managing, developing and redeveloping its properties. The company is managed by, and its properties are leased and developed by, Vornado Realty Trust. The company has seven properties in the greater New York City metropolitan area.

American Electric Power Company Inc.

American Electric Power Company is a public utility holding company. The public utility subsidiaries of the company provide electric service, consisting of generation, transmission and distribution, on an integrated basis to their retail customers. The service areas of the company's public utility subsidiaries cover portions of the states of Arkansas, Indiana, Kentucky, Louisiana, Michigan, Ohio, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia and West Virginia. Transmission networks are interconnected with distribution facilities in the territories served. The company's service company subsidiary provides accounting, administrative, information systems, engineering, financial, legal, maintenance and other services.

AMERISAFE Inc.

Amerisafe is an insurance holding company. The company provides workers' compensation insurance focused on small to mid-sized employers engaged in hazardous industries, principally construction, trucking, logging and lumber, manufacturing, and agriculture. The company provides coverage to employers under state and federal workers' compensation laws, which prescribe wage replacement and medical care benefits that employers are obligated to provide to their injured employees in the course and scope of their employment. The company's workers' compensation insurance policies provide benefits to injured employees for, among other things, temporary or permanent disability, death and medical and hospital expenses.

ANI Pharmaceuticals Inc.

ANI Pharmaceuticals is a pharmaceutical company focused on developing, manufacturing, and marketing branded and generic prescription pharmaceuticals. The company's products include, among others: Arimidex, which is used for adjuvant treatment of postmenopausal women with hormone receptor-positive early breast cancer; Erythromycin Ethylsuccinate, which is used to treat infections caused by susceptible strains of designated organisms for selected diseases; Diphenoxylate Hydrochloride and Atropine Sulfate, which is used as an adjunctive therapy in the management of diarrhea; and Etodolac, which is used to treat mild to moderate pain caused by osteoarthritis and rheumatoid arthritis.

Ardmore Shipping

BWX Technologies Inc.

BWX Technologies is a manufacturer of nuclear components, a developer of nuclear technologies and a service provider. The company operates three segments: Nuclear Operations Group, which engineers, designs and manufactures precision naval nuclear components, reactors and nuclear fuel for the U.S. Department of Energy/National Nuclear Security Administration's Naval Nuclear Propulsion Program; Nuclear Services Group, which provides services including nuclear materials processing and management and operating services; and Nuclear Power Group, which designs and manufactures commercial nuclear steam generators, heat exchangers, pressure vessels, reactor components and other auxiliary equipment.

Cisco Systems Inc.

Cisco Systems designs and sells a range of technologies that power the Internet. The company's business is organized into the following three geographic segments: Americas; Europe, Middle East, and Africa; and Asia Pacific, Japan, and China. The company's products and technologies are grouped into the following categories: Infrastructure Platforms; Applications; Security and Other Products. In addition to its product offerings, the company provides a range of service offerings, including technical support services and other services. The company delivers its technologies through software and services. The company's customers include businesses of all sizes, public institutions, governments, and service providers.

Columbia Property Trust Inc.

Columbia Property Trust is a real estate investment trust that owns and operates commercial real estate properties. The company conducts its business primarily through its subsidiary, Columbia Property Trust Operating Partnership, L.P., which acquires, redevelops, owns, leases, and operates real properties directly and through wholly and partially owned subsidiaries and joint ventures.

EchoStar Corporation Class A

EchoStar is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company is a global provider of broadband satellite technologies, broadband internet services for home and small office customers, satellite operations and satellite services. The company operates in two business segments: Hughes, which provides broadband satellite technologies and broadband internet services and broadband network technologies, managed services, equipment, hardware, satellite services and communications solutions; and EchoStar Satellite Services, which uses certain of the company's owned and leased in-orbit satellites and related licenses to provide satellite service operations and satellite services.

Eneti Inc

Farmer Bros. Co.

Farmer Bros. is a coffee roaster, wholesaler and distributor of coffee, tea and culinary products. The company's products are manufactured under supply agreements, under its owned brands, as well as under private labels on behalf of certain customers. The company's product categories consist of the following: a line of roast and ground coffee, including organic, Direct Trade, Project D.I.R.E.C.T.? and other offerings; frozen liquid coffee; flavored and unflavored iced and hot teas; culinary products and coffee-related products; spices; and other beverages. The company's primary brands include Farmer Brothers?, Artisan Collection by Farmer Brothers?, Superior?, Metropolitan?, China Mist? and Boyds?.

Hershey Company

Hershey is engaged in the production of chocolate and non-chocolate confectionery. The company's segments are: North America, which is responsible for the company's chocolate and non-chocolate confectionery market position, and its grocery and snacks market positions, in the United States and Canada; and International and Other, in which the company has operations and manufactures product in China, Mexico, Brazil, India and Malaysia, and also distributes and sells confectionery products in export markets of Asia, Latin America, Middle East, Europe, Africa and other regions. The company's product offerings include chocolate and non-chocolate confectionery products, gum and mint refreshment products, snack and pantry items.

Invitation Homes Inc.

Invitation Homes is an owner and operator of single-family homes for lease, providing residents homes in neighborhoods across America. The company operates primarily in the Western United States, Florida, and the Southeast United States. The company has one reportable segment related to acquiring, renovating, leasing, and operating single-family homes as rental properties.

Kroger Co.

Kroger operates as a retailer. The company also manufacture and process some of the food for sale in its supermarkets. Supermarkets are operated under one of the following formats: combination food and drug stores (combo stores); multi-department stores; marketplace stores; or price impact warehouses. The combo stores provide food and organic sections, pharmacies, general merchandise, pet centers and perishables such as seafood and organic produce. Marketplace provide grocery, pharmacy and health and beauty care departments as well as perishable offering and general merchandise area that includes apparel, home goods and toys.

L3Harris Technologies Inc

L3Harris Technologies is a global aerospace and defense technology innovator, delivering end-to-end solutions. The company's segments are: Integrated Mission Systems, including multi-mission intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance and communication systems; Space and Airborne Systems, including space payloads, sensors and full-mission solutions; Communication Systems, including tactical communications, broadband communications, integrated vision solutions, and public safety; and Aviation Systems, including defense aviation products, security, detection and other commercial aviation products, commercial and military pilot training, and mission networks for air traffic management.

Liberty Latin America A

Northrop Grumman Corporation

Northrop Grumman is a security company. The company's segments include: Aerospace Systems, which is engaged in the design, development, integration and production of manned aircraft, autonomous systems, spacecraft, high-energy laser systems, microelectronics and other systems and subsystems; Innovation Systems, which is engaged in the design, development, integration and production of flight, armament and space systems; Mission Systems, which is engaged in end-to-end mission solutions and multifunction systems; and Technology Services, which is engaged in delivering solutions and services in support of mission-critical networks and systems.

Norwest Minerals

Norwest Minerals Ltd is an Australia-based gold and base metals exploration company. It is focused on exploring its portfolio of gold and base-metal projects, which are all located in Western Australia. Its projects include Bali Project, Warriedar Project, Arunta West Project, Marymia Project, Bulgera Gold Project and the Marriotts Project. The Bali Project is a copper and base metals exploration license, located approximately 250 kilometers (km) west of Newman in the Ashburton region of Western Australia. Warriedar Project is a gold project located approximately 420 km northeast of Perth. Arunta West Project is an iron oxide copper-gold project located 600 km west of Alice Springs. Marymia Project is a gold and copper project located approximately 900 km north of Perth and targets orogenic-gold and volcanogenic massive sulphide (VMS) copper/base metal mineralization. Its Marriotts Project is a nickel project located approximately 70 km south of Leinster and 80 km north of Leonora.

Otter Tail Corporation

Otter Tail is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company's reporting segments include: electric, which includes the production, transmission, distribution and sale of electric energy in Minnesota, North Dakota and South Dakota by the company's subsidiary, Otter Tail Power Company; manufacturing, which consists of businesses engaged in the contract machining, metal parts stamping, fabrication and painting, and production of plastic thermoformed horticultural containers, life science and industrial packaging, and material handling components; and plastics, which consists of businesses producing polyvinyl chloride pipe at plants in North Dakota and Arizona.

Phibro Animal Health Corporation Class A

Phibro Animal Health is an animal health and mineral nutrition company. The company develops, manufactures and markets products for a range of food animals including poultry, swine, beef and dairy cattle and aquaculture. The company's products include animal health products such as antibacterials, anticoccidials, nutritional products and vaccines. The company's Animal Health segment also includes antibacterials and other processing aids in the ethanol fermentation industry. The company's mineral nutrition products fortify the animal's diet and help maintain optimal health. The company also manufactures and markets ingredients for use in the personal care, industrial chemical and chemical catalyst industries.

Preferred Apartment Communities Inc.

Preferred Apartment Communities is a real estate investment trust that conducts its business through its Operating Partnership. The company operates in five segments: multifamily communities, which consists of the company's portfolio of owned residential multifamily communities; student housing properties, which consists of the company's portfolio of owned student housing properties, financing, which consists of the company's portfolio of real estate loans, bridge loans, and other instruments deployed by the company; new market properties, which consists of the company's portfolio of grocery-anchored shopping centers; and preferred office properties, which consists of the company's portfolio of office buildings.

PS Business Parks Inc.

PS Business Parks is a self-advised and self-managed real estate investment trust that owns, operates, acquires and develops commercial properties, primarily multi-tenant industrial, flex and office space. Substantially all of the company's assets are held, and its business conducted, through PS Business Parks, L.P. The company owns and operates commercial space, comprising business parks, in California, Texas, Virginia, Florida, Maryland and Washington. The company owns flex space, representing industrial buildings that are configured with a combination of warehouse and office space and can be designed to fit a variety of uses.

SFL Corporation Limited

Sprouts Farmers Markets Inc.

Sprouts Farmers Market operates as a healthy grocery store. The company categorizes the varieties of products it sells as perishable and non-perishable. Perishable product categories include produce, meat, seafood, deli, bakery, floral and dairy and dairy alternatives. Non-perishable product categories include grocery, vitamins and supplements, bulk items, frozen foods, beer and wine, and natural health and body care. The company's stores include the following departments: packaged groceries, meat and seafood, deli, vitamins and supplements, dairy and dairy alternatives, bulk items, baked goods, frozen foods, natural health and body care, and beer and wine.

TreeHouse Foods Inc.

TreeHouse Foods is a consumer packaged food and beverage manufacturer operating across the United States, Canada, and Italy. The company's reportable segments are: Baked Goods, which sells bars, candy, cookies, crackers; in-store bakery products, pita chips, pretzels, refrigerated dough, and retail griddle waffles, pancakes, and French toast; Beverages, which sells broths, liquid non-dairy creamer, non-dairy powdered creamers, powdered drinks, ready-to-drink coffee, single serve hot beverages, teas, and sweeteners; and Meal Solutions, which sells aseptic cheese and pudding products, baking and mix powders, hot cereals, pasta, and skillet dinners, among others.

United Fire Group Inc.

United Fire Group is an insurance holding company. Through its consolidated subsidiaries and affiliates, the company is engaged in the business of writing property and casualty insurance through a network of independent agencies. The company's insurance company subsidiaries are licensed as a property and casualty insurer in various states, plus the District of Columbia. The company has one business segment: property and casualty insurance, which is comprised of commercial lines insurance, including surety bonds, personal lines insurance and assumed reinsurance. All of the company's property and casualty insurance subsidiaries and its affiliate belong to an intercompany reinsurance pooling arrangement.

United Insurance Holdings Corp.

United Insurance Holdings is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company is engaged in the residential personal and commercial property and casualty insurance business in the United States. The company's insurance subsidiaries provide personal residential and commercial property and casualty insurance products that protect its policyholders against losses due to damages to structures and their contents. Some of the company's insurance subsidiaries sell policies that protect against liability for accidents as well as property damage. The company's non-insurance subsidiaries support its insurance and investment operations. The company writes in Florida, Connecticut, Georgia, Hawaii, Louisiana, and other various states.

VERSO CORPORATIN

Verso is a producer of coated papers, which are used in commercial print, magazines, catalogs, advertising brochures and annual reports, among other media and marketing publications. The company produces products, ranging from coated freesheet and coated groundwood, to specialty papers, packaging papers, inkjet and digital papers, supercalendered papers and uncoated freesheet. The company also produces and sells market kraft pulp, which is used to manufacture printing and writing paper grades and tissue products. The company manufactures paper and board products that serve the graphic papers, specialty papers and packaging papers markets. The company also manufactures pulp for both internal use and external sales.

Waste Management Inc.

Waste Management is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company is a provider of waste management environmental services. The company partners with its residential, commercial, industrial and municipal customers and the communities it serves to manage and reduce waste at each stage from collection to disposal, while recovering resources and creating renewable energy. The company's Solid Waste business is operated and managed by its subsidiaries that focus on various geographic areas and provide collection, transfer, disposal, and recycling and resource recovery services. Through its subsidiaries, the company is also a developer, operator and owner of landfill gas-to-energy facilities.

Western Union Company

Western Union is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company is engaged in money movement and payment services, providing people and businesses with ways to send money and make payments around the world. The company's segments are: Consumer-to-Consumer, which is focused on individual money transfers from one consumer to another; and Business Solutions, in which the company facilitates payment and foreign exchange solutions, primarily cross-border, cross-currency transactions, for small and medium size enterprises and other organizations and individuals. The company's remaining businesses and services include its electronic-based and cash-based bill payment services.

Weyco Group Inc.

Weyco Group is engaged in one line of business: the design and distribution of footwear. The company designs and markets footwear principally for men, but also for women and children, under a portfolio of brand names including: Florsheim, Nunn Bush, Stacy Adams, BOGS, and Rafters. The company's products consist primarily of mid-priced leather dress shoes and casual footwear composed of man-made materials or leather. The company's footwear is available in a range of sizes and widths. In the company's wholesale segment, its products are sold to footwear, department and specialty stores, primarily in the U.S. and Canada. The company's retail segment consisted of brick and mortar retail stores and internet businesses in the U.S.

World Wrestling Entertainment Inc. Class A

World Wrestling Entertainment is a media and entertainment company. The company is engaged in the production and distribution of content through various channels, including its over-the-top subscription network (WWE Network), content rights agreements, pay-per-view event programming, filmed entertainment, live events, licensing of WWE themed products, and the sale of consumer products. The company's operations are organized around the following activities: Media, which reflects the production and monetization of media content across various platforms; Live events, which provides ongoing content for its media platforms; and Consumer Products, which engages in the merchandising of WWE branded products.

X4 Pharmaceuticals Inc

X4 Pharmaceuticals is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on applying monoclonal antibody (mAb) immunotherapies to address serious infectious diseases. The company's Programs: ASN100 is a combination of two fully human mAbs that are co-administered intravenously to neutralize the six cytotoxins critical to S. aureus pneumonia pathogenesis; ASN500 is a mAb targeting respiratory syncytial virus, a virus that can cause serious respiratory tract infections in young children and elderly and immunocompromised patients; and the company's preclinical stage Gram-negative mAb programs, ASN300 for Klebsiella pneumoniae and ASN200 for Escherichia coli, were outlicensed to the company's subsidiary.

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